1839 Irish immigrant to Australian penal colony
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Title: British diplomat aids Irish immigrant to Tasmanian penal colony, 1839 letter
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Date Published: 1839
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Title: British diplomat aids Irish immigrant to Tasmanian penal colony, 1839 letter
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Date Published: 1839
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Stratford Canning. Autograph Letter Signed. Antwerp, July 23, 1839. 2pp. To Henry Labouchere, M.P. [then Under Secretary of State for War and the Colonies]
Recommends "the merits of a respectable individual", Holmes Biggam, an Irish officer of Wellington‘s Army during the war against Napoleon in Spain, who was "intending to take out his family to Van Diemens Land", and, to "provide for a numerous family" in that penal colony, was "wholly desirous to obtain the protection and favorable opinion of the Colonial authorities both here and on the spot…"
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1839 Irish immigrant to Australian penal colony
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